Keonhi Son

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

This is the first research output of our project " Work-family Policies: Socioeconomic Outcomes and Policy Learning" as part of @sfb1342.bsky.social (www.socialpolicydynamics.de/projects/pro...).

4. These poverty-driven work–family trade-offs are associated with adverse child health and developmental outcomes.

5. Childcare provision improves gender equality and child outcomes, while cash transfers and paid leave show mixed effects.

2. In LMICs, the motherhood penalty often leads women to move into flexible but lower-quality jobs rather than leaving the labor force.

3. Economically disadvantaged mothers often increase their labor supply in precarious jobs after childbirth, driven by financial necessity.

We map distinctive work-family challenges in LMICs and examine how family policies can alleviate them.

1. Agricultural and informal sector jobs are often incompatible with caregiving: long hours and poor conditions offset gains from flexibility.

📢NEW PUBLICATION:
Do you think work-family challenges are limited to advanced economies, where many women work in the formal sector? Our review article disagrees (w @aysegulkayaoglu.bsky.social ).
doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

2. In LMICs, the motherhood penalty often leads women to move into flexible but lower-quality jobs rather than leaving the labor force.

3. Economically disadvantaged mothers often increase their labor supply in precarious jobs after childbirth, driven by financial necessity.

We map distinctive work-family challenges in LMICs and examine how family policies can alleviate them.

1. Agricultural and informal sector jobs are often incompatible with caregiving: long hours and poor conditions offset gains from flexibility.

New #aBitOfCCS episode 🎙️
I spoke with @keonhison.bsky.social about the structure of parliamentary discourse on women in the Weimar Republic!

Honestly, one of the coolest methodological set-ups I’ve seen in a while — such a thoughtful application of #CCS.
aboutccs.net/abitofccs/

I hope this paper is of interest to people curious about the particularities of the Spanish case and to interest groups and gender and politics literature! On positionality as a male researcher on this topic, I made an effort to represent my interviewees’ perspectives faithfully and respectfully.

Two broader contributions:
1) Citizen groups can also use insider tactics of influence, similar to what professional lobbies do.
2) Having women in parliament does not only matter because they act differently, but also because they constitute entry points for female activists.

New publication in the Journal of Public Policy!🚨

⚖️It shows how feminist advocacy pushed for a reform entitling mothers and fathers to equal parental leave in Spain.

👉This also unveils that descriptive representation matters because it can open access for feminist groups.

doi.org/10.1017/S014...

Why Greenland doesn’t want Trump’s America Greenlanders overwhelmingly reject U.S. annexation, fearing the loss of self-rule, Danish fiscal transfers and a universal welfare system.

Daniel Béland & Klaus Petersen: Why Greenland doesn’t want Trump’s America policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/01/gree...

Research Position / PhD Researcher (m/f/d) - CRC 1... <div style="text-align: justify;">The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1342, "Global Dynamics of Social Policy," has been...

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a PhD Researcher at Bielefeld University

✨Research on policy learning, and work-family policies in Mexico & Germany, within the @sfb1342.bsky.social on global dynamics of social policy

Applications until 12.1.26, details at: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/473...

Publication alert!🚨
My chapter with @margaleon.bsky.social in the Handbook of Social Care Policy is out!
We review the partisan politics of family policy in Sweden, Germany & Spain and classify research into demand (electoral) and supply (functional/ideational). 🧵
www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’

Check out this great article by @ashifakassam.bsky.social, featuring yours truly and the fab @gretajasser.bsky.social!

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Call for participants 🔥

The 4th Doctoral Conference @mpifg.bsky.social is happening and if you’re pursuing your PhD you really should be part of it.

It’s a relaxed, super inspiring atmosphere and you‘ll build a great network of peers 🌍

Submission is open for 4 more days ✨

📣 Final Call for visiting fellowships for postdocs at the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social! Great opportunity to spend 2-4 weeks in a fantastic academic environment! See 👇 for details!

Looking forward to collaborate with this amazing team!

CRC 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" Enters Third Funding Phase! 🌏🥳 DFG is supporting the CRC for another four years until the end of 2029! #socialpolicy Read more: socialpolicydynamics.de/en
uni-bremen.de/en/

Publication in Journal of Development Studies

💡 Rethinking vulnerability to international human trafficking in theoretical frame: agency instead of passive victimhood

🚻 No baseline gender gap—but: a gendered bystander effect, increasing men’s vulnerability, not women’s

doi.org/10.1080/0022...

Analysis of German elections shows female candidates underperform mainly because parties nominate them in less favorable districts, not due to voter bias or candidate traits, from Thomas Fujiwara, Hanno Hilbig, and Pia Raffler www.nber.org/papers/w34396

We are hiring! We are looking for a departmental lecturer to teach and supervise master students in comparative social policy. We offer a supportive and engaging environment in which to develop your own research agenda. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions Apply here 👇

For my DFG-funded project “German Sexual Identity and Election Study” and my ERC-funded project “VisibleQueers”, I am looking for three student assistants (m/f/d) to provide dedicated support and active collaboration.

Please share!

www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/three-stu...

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Hidden’ Work-Family Challenges in the Global South: A Systematic Review of Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses Seminar. 17/09. 16h30-18h.

🚨 Don't miss our next online Family Policy seminar with the wonderful @keonhison.bsky.social on Wednesday (17th), 4:30 pm: "Hidden work-family challenges in the global south: a systematic review of causes, consequences, and policy responses."

👉More about it here: www.sciencespo.fr/liepp/fr/eve...

An underrated reason for the persistence of cousin marriages: high fertility maintains a large supply of cousins. Could (help) explain why Pakistan’s first-cousin marriage rate is 50%!!! versus India and Bangladesh <10%.

Tradwives aren’t trad

Another year of great success and company at the ESPAnet Annual Conference 👏🏼 already looking forward to the next one 🫰🏼 @keonhison.bsky.social Andrew Zola & @janhelmdag.bsky.social in the pics from their final session

YouTube video by Work and Family Researchers Network Richard Petts - What if All Fathers in the U.S. Had Paid Paternity Leave?

What do fathers really want for Father's Day? How about a national policy that provides paid leave to all fathers!

Check out my newly released Big Ideas Talk courtesy of @wfrn.bsky.social.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iloV...